Posts tagged with "Zdeno Chara"

Except for just a few seasons in the mid 2000's, the Boston Bruins have been a highly successful hockey team since the start of the 21st century: one Stanley Cup victory, two trips to the finals, and several playoff appearances, all lead by a number of top notch players. Here are the players I believe have been most important to...

There's never a good time to make a trade. Too soon and you're giving up on your team. Too late and you're, well, too late.
This is the situation Peter Chiarelli is currently in with the Boston Bruins. For what it's worth, the Bruins aren't a bad team. If the playoffs were to start on Wednesday, the Bruins would be the second...

With the month of November in the books, now seems like the perfect time to take a status check of the Boston Bruins. Although the Bruins haven’t been at their best in the early stages of this season (as evidenced by their 14-9-1 record), there are plenty of positive signs in Boston. Before we get to that though, let’s take a look at...

You can't teach size.
That's the mantra partially driving the Calgary Flames' drafting and development over the past few seasons. The notion is that you can hire coaches to help players with their skating and their shooting and their nutrition or fitness, but you can't teach them to be bigger or taller. And if you can find a guy with...

After being traded to the Boston Bruins before the 2013-2014 season, Reilly Smith has blossomed into a solid top six forward. Playing with Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron last season, Smith notched over 20 goals and 30 assists for the first time in his young and promising career. The Hockey Writers got a chance to talk to the...

Claude Julien said something interesting before the Boston Bruins' Saturday matinee against the Carolina Hurricanes.
"I guess the sky has fallen for a lot of people, but it hasn’t fallen for us," he said. "We’re fine here. You lose a couple of games. If you lose both of them by a goal, doesn’t make it any better to me....

When Zdeno Chara went down with a knee injury and miss 4-6 weeks, everybody, Bruins fans and pundits alike, thought it would severely hurt the Bruins. After all, the Bruins just traded Johnny Boychuk to the New York Islanders and the Bruins, once deep on the blue line, were short on defensemen.
Inexplicably, the Boston Bruins are...

Every year in the NHL, trades take place between teams in order to improve their respective squads. On most occasions, trades in the NHL work out well, in which both teams improve following the arrival of a new player(s) or asset which addresses a weakness or need a team may have.
On other, less common occasions, trades in the NHL are...

The Boston Bruins have been counting days since the season began for all of the wrong reasons.
Twenty two days since Kevan Miller’s injury, 17 days since Zdeno Chara’s, 12 days since Torey Krug’s, and three days since Dave Warsofsky became the latest of the Bruins defensemen to be sidelined.
Once a wealth of depth, the...

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